Category: Longform

  • Diablo Immortal

    Diablo Immortal came out a few weeks ago. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, this is the free to play mobile Diablo MMO that was announced to great fanfare years ago. I wasn’t planning on playing it at all, despite my love of ARPGs, because MMOs turned me off…

  • The Staircase

    The Staircase, the new HBO series that just wrapped up, was very entertaining. I didn’t watch the original documentary, but I had read an article all about “the owl theory”, which I had found very convincing, so I was vaguely familiar with the murder of Kathleen Peterson. To someone unfamiliar with some of the details…

  • Mustang Micro & iRig HD 2 Comparison (for iPad users)

    I recently purchased a cheap electric guitar setup so that I could take my third… fourth?… try at learning to play guitar, in the hopes that I can start writing songs. I knew from experience that I would want some sort of audio interface for the guitar (for recording) and that I wanted to use…

  • What I’m Up To – Week 20, 2022

    Last week I got my Panic Playdate in the mail. I preordered it last July, and have been following it since the May 2019 EDGE announcement, so you could say it was a long time coming. It’s such a nice feeling device, and good looking, too. Sure, the non-backlit screen can be annoying, but I…

  • What I’m Up To – Week 11, 2022

    What I got up to this week: some minor changes to the next version of MultiClock, and… well… not much else.

  • New blog, who dis?

    I migrated this blog from Gatsby to WordPress. I’m sure to many people that sounds insane. There’s so many tutorials online on how to migrate in the other direction, and even plugins that export all your content to Markdown files to stick into Gatsby, but nothing if you want to go another way. I’m doing…

  • What I’m Up To – Week 49, 2021

    What I did over the past week: I built and released dotBeat, a small macOS menu bar app.

  • dotBeat Internet Time

    This week on stream I built a small macOS menu bar app I’m calling dotBeat Internet Time. It’s a small, focused app with two features: 1) It displays the current Swatch Internet Time in the menu bar, and 2) It allows you to figure out how Internet Time corresponds to your local time, as well…

  • What I’m Up To – Week 48, 2021

    What I did over the past week: streamed learning Laravel.

  • What I’m Up To – Week 47, 2021

    What I did over the past, uh, week? Year? Who knows. It’s been a while.

  • Cyberpunk 2077

    Why I think Cyberpunk 2077 is a great game, with pictures.

  • Making PICO-8 Development Easier

    A quick guide on how to make developing games on PICO-8 a bit friendlier for established developers.

  • People Can Be Dishonest About Work

    Details of my experience with someone trying very hard to commit unemployment fraud.

  • PiBar for Pi-hole v1.0 Out Now!

    Last week I bought a Raspberry Pi Zero W so that I could set up a Pi-hole on my home network. If you don’t know what Pi-hole is: it’s a network-level ad and tracking script blocker. It’s different from using something like AdBlock or the Brave browser, because it works across all devices on your…

  • Zip Multiple Files for Download from AWS S3

    Ever need to serve multiple files from S3 at once? Wouldn’t a zip function be great? Well, here you go.